TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As Reported in The California Lumber Merchanl, December 1 5,'1932

: Bill Chantland is now calling on the Southern California reiail trade for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. after ,irine years with Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., whose local ohce presented him with a gold Masonic watch charm,' and formerly operating a midwest,retail yard for the Shevlin .interests Ed Culnan resigned from the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. to become general manager of the ,lVestern Lumber Co. of San Diego. He had managed Mc- ,,Cormick's San Pedro, Oceanside and Riverside yards . . George E. Geary, formerly with E; J. Stanton & Son, entered the insurance business.

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club members again planned to distribute groceries to needy families, announced President Earle Johnsorr at the November 14 meeting. The committee will be Gordon D. Pierce, Earl Davis, N. E. Nelson, Miland R. Grant, Con Sheehan and Clem Fraser. The club called 'upon Jack Dionne for some stories and was rewarded, it was reported, with "the kind of laughter heard all too sel,dom these depression days."

The Portland Wholesale Lumber Assn. was formed with E. T. Sturgeon as president . . The California Redwood Association issued its beautiful 1933 calendar The Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company announced its retirement from the retail lumber business in San Francisco and sold its stock to the Sudden Lumber Company.

Seeley Lumber Co. opened a new retail.yard in Fresno. Managdr Seeley was fofmerly with Tilden iumber & Mill Co. . . Earl Galbraith, salesmanager for Schumacher Wallboard Co5p., announced the lowest prices on 5/16 Grip Lath in the history of the company . . . Mitch Landis, formerly with the Noah Adams Lumb-er Co., was named manager of the Tilden yard in Fresno . . . P. T. Burns, manag'er of the Kern Countv Lumber Co.. Bakersfield. announced the arrival of " roh.

R. R. Leishman and E. W. Hemrning, field men for the California Redwood Assn., showed movies and talked at four grade schools in Redondo Beach .-, The mill of Dolbeer & Carson at Eureka voluntarilv closed for an indefiniteshutdown for the first time since ihe Civil War Tom Dant, Los Angeles and Arizona manager for Fir-Tex of Southern California, left for a business trip to the Orient Hugh M. Cochran, former executive with Union Lumber Company, retired to Old Point Comfort, Virginia . . . Chas. P. Henry, Arizona representative for Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. attended the dealers' convention in Los Angeles.

J. C. Nason, 35, who had just bought the Hayward retail yard at Manteca, was killed November 29 in an auto accident north of Sacramento Reuben C. Merryman, 69, former lumberman and brother of the secretary of The California Lumber Merchant, died of a heart attack, December 10, at his Pasadena home . . Albert L. Hubbard, 60, president and manager of Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose, died of a heart attack December 5. The dealer, who was also a county supervisor 28 years, was born in Woodland and went to San Jose when his father opened the retail yard there.

The Southern California Fir Plywood Jobbers'Assn. was organized November 28 with Harqy V. Hanson of California Panel & Veneer Co. as president; other officers are Hollis Nunnelley, J. A. McCann and Kenneth Smith Jack Halloran, Bennett-Halloran Lumber Co.; Ted O'Malley and Sam Wilcox, O'Malley Lumber Co., and Bill Warriner, Riverside Cement Co., all of Phoenix, attended the Notre Dame-USC game in Los Angeles.

The Orange County Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting November D and elected as directors: C. W. Pinkerton, O. H. Barr, F. N. Gibbs, Ernest Ganahl, Walter Spicer, John Strickland and R. A. Emison. Dealer Gibbs of Anaheim was elected president and Leslie Pearson of E. K. Wood's Santa Ana yard renamed treasurer. Retiring President Ganahl was given a vote of thanks for his leadership. D. F. Liggett won low gross in the annual golf play.

(TeII them you saw it in The California Lumber Merchant)

Dubs Ploy I t Oth ot Millbroe

The 1l0th Tournament of Dubs, Ltd., was played on the Green Hills Country Club course at Millbrae, November 15. Gamerston & Green's Fred Ziese was host for the dav. perfect in every respect, including the well-attended banquet that evening. Winners were as follows:

First flight (net scores), George Mouler (74), Ellsworth Keene (76) and the host himself, Fred Ziese (81).

In the second flight it was Doc White (72), Harry Wood (73), Dubs president Hollis Jones (74) and Bill Johnson (7s).

Third flight winners were Paul Gaboury (78) and Walt Hjort (79), followed by Hugh Pessner (71) and Seth Butler (79) in the fourth-flight division. Guest-flight winners were Fred Ziese, Jr., with a 7.1 net, and Rex Zanardi with an 81 scorecard.

The next regular meeting of Dubs is scheduled for

Friday, January 17, at the California Club, South San Francisco.

5t. Onge Bock to Grqnts Poss Soles Post

L. V. St. Onge, formerly with Western Sales Corp., Santa Barbara, California, has returned to his former position as sales manager for Plywood & Veneer Sales Company and Interstate Plywood Sales Company, Grants Pass, Oregon. The Plywood & Veneer Sales Company of Grants Pass is the exclusive sales agents for Grants Pass Plywood, Inc., while Interstate Plywood Sales Company is exclusive sales agents for Interstate Container Corp,, Red Blufi, California. St. Onge is well known throughout California and the Pacific Northwest in the plywood and lumber industry and Prior to going to Santa Barbara he spent several years with Interstate Plywood Sales in various capacities both production and sales administration.